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However, the crucial problem looming over this priest wasn't his illnesses but that he had lost his faith. In the course of the show we find out that he had been unjustly blamed for molesting an alter boy, and the church leaders, not wanting to deal with discovering the truth, moved him from parish to parish. Understandably, every time the new parishioners learned of his background, they didn’t want him in their church and so he had to be moved again.
This priest, unfairly treated by his church and now sick with an unknown illness, felt abandoned by God. His question became, Why has God rejected and forsaken me? He was living proof that, “Life becomes incomprehensible where there is no understanding of God.” Chuck Missler.
Like Job, in chapters 9-19, this man of God was trying to understand his circumstances and how they could possibly fit into God’s plans and like Job no one seemed able to identify or empathize with the depth of his despair.
In the end, as the doctors determined what was wrong with him and as his body began to heal, there was seen a first a ray of light in his eyes…the beginning of a rebuilding of his faith. Likewise, in Job 19, we see the words that Job utter, as he too glimpses, through a ray of light, the Eternal.
Oh, that my words were recorded,
that they were written on a scroll,
that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead,
or engraved in rock forever!
I know that my Redeemer lives,
I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that in the end He will stand upon the earth.
And after my skin has been destroyed,
And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;…
How my heart yearns within Me!
Job 19-23-27
Job 19-23-27
AMEN! -
Robin
